Re: Lessons from the AU model

On 21 Jan 2008, at 01:43, Martin Barry wrote:

> $quoted_author = "Andy Davidson" ;
>> .. think about what happens when your customers'
routes start  
>> appearing
>> through your MLP session as well.
> Standard practice would be to localpref customer routes
over peering  
> routes.[...] The customer's inbound (standard billing
metric) won't  
> be affected but their ratio might.

I'm really happy for you to sell me some transit as long as
I can peer  
with you over MLP as well.  Small commit.  I agree to give
you some of  
my prefixes over the paid session, but I'm going to put all
of my  
routes and my customer's routes on the MLP.

With any luck you wont notice, just be happy that you
suddenly seem to  
be selling more transit via your upstreams and also peering
off more  
data too..  


Andy

OK, I give and admit my ignorance. What does "MLP"
mean in this  
context ?

A google search for "Australia mlp" reveals many
hits for "My Little  
Pony,"
which somehow I doubt is the intended meaning on this list.

A proper reference would be appreciated.

Regards
Marshall


On Jan 21, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Andy Davidson wrote:

>
>
> On 21 Jan 2008, at 01:43, Martin Barry wrote:
>
>> $quoted_author = "Andy Davidson" ;
>>> .. think about what happens when your
customers' routes start  
>>> appearing
>>> through your MLP session as well.
>> Standard practice would be to localpref customer
routes over  
>> peering routes.[...] The customer's inbound
(standard billing  
>> metric) won't be affected but their ratio might.
>
> I'm really happy for you to sell me some transit as
long as I can  
> peer with you over MLP as well.  Small commit.  I agree
to give you  
> some of my prefixes over the paid session, but I'm
going to put all  
> of my routes and my customer's routes on the MLP.
>
> With any luck you wont notice, just be happy that you
suddenly seem  
> to be selling more transit via your upstreams and also
peering off  
> more data too..  
>
>
> Andy

$quoted_author = "Andy Davidson" ;
>
> I'm really happy for you to sell me some transit as
long as I can peer with 
> you over MLP as well.  Small commit.  I agree to give
you some of my 
> prefixes over the paid session, but I'm going to put
all of my routes and 
> my customer's routes on the MLP.
>
> With any luck you wont notice, just be happy that you
suddenly seem to be 
> selling more transit via your upstreams and also
peering off more data 
> too..  

Anyone with clue is doing community tagging on learned
routes and community
filtering on advertised routes and/or as-path filtering on
advertised
routes.

Anyone without clue is welcome to send me their ratecard.



cheers
marty

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